10 



CROP PEST COMMISSION OF 



migrations, careful field examinations in this locality during 

 December failing to reveal any indication of infestations. 



ARKANSAS 



FIG. 3. Area in Louisiana infested by the boll weevil in December, 1905. 



In the eastern part of the area at present infested (Figure 3) 

 the infestation of course is exceedingly light, maximum infesta- 

 tion and consequent severe injury not occurring before the second 

 season of infestation and occasionally not before the third. In 

 those portions of the State reached by the weevil in the fall of 

 1903 or the very early summer of 1904 the injury during the 

 season just passed has been considerable. Roughly outlined, the 

 area suffering severest weevil injury during 1905 is embraced 

 in Western Vernon and Sabine Parishes and Southwestern De- 

 Soto Parish. In Western Sabine Parish the weevils are doubt- 

 less as abundant as they ever will be, and it is interesting to 

 note, incidentally, that the fanners in this section who have fol- 



